forEach over all units in a side?

[galzohar 31]

How can I make a forEach run over all units in a given side (including manned but excluding unmanned vehicles)? I can see how I can get an array of all players in a group but how do I get all units (or all groups) in a side?

[Taurus 20]

make a really really big trigger, have it activated by the side of your choice

on Act: something = [thislist] execVM "myscript.sqf"

then create the "myscript.sqf"- script.

private ["_trgList","_listOfAllUnits","_iX"];
_trgList = _this select 0;
_listOfAllUnits = [];
_iX = 0;
{
   _obj = _x; //Fixed stuff...
   if((count crew _obj) > 0) then{
       //Is a vehicle
       {
           _listOfAllUnits set [_iX,_x];
       }forEach (crew _obj);
   }else{
           _listOfAllUnits set [_iX,_obj];
   };
_iX = _iX + 1;
}forEach _trgList;
//Do what you want with the list of units array "_listOfAllUnits"
....

Untested but it should work.

Edited July 30, 2009 by Taurus

[rübe 127]

Actually there is absolutely no need for a trigger and to be on the safe side (and be sure to really catch all) you probably should better make a call to allUnits. I can imagine this command will be faster than any trigger anyway, since the units ingame are probably already neatly stored there somewhere in a nice list...

{
  if ((side _x) == West) then
  {
     // magic
  };
} forEach allUnits;

[galzohar 31]

Yeah allUnits should cover it nicely, thx.

[Tinker 10]

Sry to be a dum dum, but what is an agent?

Description:

Return a list of all units (all persons except agents).

[galzohar 31]

Looking at the wiki (under agent and agents values) doesn't really say much about what an agent actually is either...

[rübe 127]

As I understand agents are basically dumbed down units. In practice you want to use createAgent to spawn all sorts of animals. And now that I think of it, could it be that you could use agents for soldiers as a base to build your own FSM upon it? You know, so the hardcoded FSM doesn't kick in? mh...